The "Everyone Needs a Parent" curriculum provides a new way of getting in touch with parenting by helping people to regain old skills and develop new ones. (MM)

Unfortunately, many elementary schools today are not equipped with an art room. In addition, thousands of elementary school children complete the first six years of their formal education without the benefit of a qualified art teacher. The project described is one small step toward educating the "whole" child. It features the Artmobile,…

Project ASPIRE was designed to increase educators' awareness of sexual prejudice. Training activities focused on self-awareness, effects of sex-role stereotyping on students, procedures to assess biases in instructional and counseling practices and materials, and methods to reduce sex-role stereotyping within the school setting. (Author)

Reports on a workshop held in Chicago in March, 1978 by the National Society of Professional Engineers. The workshop addressed the task of planning a program of development of professional schools of engineering. (BB)

The process of goal setting outlined emphasizes education and personal development, acknowledges departmental interdependency and consistency, brings purpose and direction to staff training programs and year-long activities, guarantees that measurement of success is possible, and acknowledges the student helper as an integral part of the residence…

Twelve college professors attending an instructional improvement workshop were compared with appropriate matched controls on changes in self-actualization as measured by the Personal Orientation Inventory (POI). Results indicated that workshop participants increased their scores on 6 of 12 scales of the POI while control professors' scores…

Notes that useful information can be gathered by examining programs of agricultural teacher conferences. Data presented, gathered from such programs, include whether the conferences were joint or separate, type (all-vocational or technical agriculture), whether they were held on land-grant colleges, length and rotation, unique activities, special…

Effective groups differed from less effective groups in the areas of shared values, adherence to norms related to participation, methods of participating in the work and in the areas of satisfaction with the human and material resources that affected their group behavior. (Author)

In an authoritarian state, visitors are as controlled as are the local inhabitants. This report by an educator, an elementary teacher from Urbana, Illinois, offers some critical comments on Cuban education. (Editor/RK)

Describes a workshop designed to introduce preservice and in-service teachers to the latest findings from research on human consciousness. (Author)

This description of research workshops for graduate students developed by a university library covers the need for the workshops, their intended goals, projected audience, planning, implementation, personnel, publicity, and the evaluation method used. (EM)

Used the Marital Satisfaction Inventory to measure effects of the 12-hour Couple Communication Program, a highly structured workshop designed to teach couples new ways of communicating more effectively. Pre- and post-test results from six couples revealed significant changes in the couples' problem-solving communication after participation in the…

Twenty young people and adults met to explore ways in which they could work together to solve each other's problems. Role reversal was a key factor in the success of the workshop, as it underlined the importance of teen-adult communication. A sample workshop agenda is included. (JMM)

Summarizes workshop organization and activities at the 1987 Governor's Academy for Teachers of Writing, a two-week workshop and writing laboratory for teachers in Tennessee. (MM)

Examines the use of pretournament workshops and instruction packets as means of eliminating errors made by uninformed debate judges. Offers suggestions to judges which are intended to help them develop more articulate and educationally valuable student critiques. (Author/GEA)